Cloth-board



(No Model.) v

J. W. JONES.

CLOTH BOARD.

No'. 420,344. Patented Jan. 28, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN W. JONES, OF UTIOA, NEV YORK.

CLOTH- BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 420,344, dated January28, 18.90.

` Application led August 16, 1888. Serial No.282,949. (No model.) Y

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. JONES, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cloth-Boards;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon ,which form part of this speciication.

My invention relates to an improvement in the construction ofcloth-boards, and to a novel manner of applying a tag or ticket to thecloth-board.

I-Ieretofore in the use of cloth-boards as ordinarily constructed it hasbeen found necessary to attach a tag or ticket to the clothboard, or thecloth wrapped upon the board, upon which the price, number of yards,brand or grade of goods, and similar memorada are placed for reference.The tag or ticket as ordinarily attached has proved itself to be more orless in the way, to be liable to get torn o, and when large quantitiesof goods are together detracts materially from the ap-I pearance of thegoods.

It is the object of my invention to provide an improved manner ofapplying the tag to the board, and also to provide other improvements,hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l shows the clot-hboard provided with recessesfor the reception of the tag and elastic cord or spring, and also showsthe tag partially withdrawn from its recess. Fig. 2 shows a plan and endview of a part of the board as shownjn Fig. 1,the dotted lines showingsubstantially the form of the recess for the reception of the tag. Fig.3 shows a plan, end, and edge view of a part of a board having astrengthening or stay piece across the end of the board.

Like figures of reference refer to like or similar parts in the severalfigures of the drawings.

In constructing my device in a board of suitable size and shape Iprovide a recess 2 for the reception of the tag 3. This recess 2is ofsuitable size for the reception of the tag 3 and of a length to admitthe tag, so that when its inner end is in contact with the inner endwall of the recess 2 the tab or ear 4 of the tag will project from therecess sufciently to be'easily grasped to draw the tag out from therecess. I provide a slot in the wall of the tag-recess and a groove inthe external surface of the board extending beyond the bottom of thetag-recess 2 of less width than the width of the tag-recess. This slotand ren cess extend longitudinally from the end toward the middleportion of the clothboard. The slot and groove 5 are parallel with andcentrally located with reference to the tag-recess, as shown in Fig. 2.The slot and groove 5 are provided for accommodating an elasticconnection 6, one end of which is secured to terial than the body of theboard, which at aV slight advance in cost would add very materially tothe appearance, the end of the board being the only part that showswhile the board has the cloth wrapped thereon.

Of course a stay-piece similar in appearance to that shown at 9, Fig. 3,may be ap plied to the opposite end of the board from that in which thetag is inserted, not having the opening for the reception of the tag. Astring may be affixed to the tag in lieu of the tab or ear 4 for drawingthe tag out of the recess.

In using the device the elastic cord 6, lying in recess 5, is strainedto hold the tag 3 into recess 2. Vhen it is desired to see the mark uponthe tag 3, the tab or ear 4 is grasped and the card partially drawn outof its recess,wh en vthe marks upon it may be seen. lVhen the tag isreleased, it instantaneously and automatically recedes into the recess2,where it is stopped by the inner end of the tag coming in contact withthe inner end wall of recess 2 in such a position as to leave the tab orear 4 projecting a little out of the end of the board.

I am aware that others have heretofore ap end, anda slot and groove ofless Width than the tag-recess and extending beyond the end of the same,in combination with the movable tag, the elastic connection With one endsecured to the tag and the other end in the groove and strained to drawthe tag into the tag-recess, and a highly-polished or ornamentalstrengthening or stay piece fixed to the end of the cloth-board andengaging the same across the entire end and having an opening throughwhich the tag passes, sub-v stantially as shown and described.

In Witness whereof I have affixed mysignature in presence of twoWitnesses.

JOHN W. JONES.

Witnesses:

E. W. JONES, M. E. ROBINSON.

